What is Spiritual Mind Treatment?

Science of Mind® uses a five-step affirmative prayer called spiritual mind treatment. The five steps are:

1. Recognition—know that God is all there is. 2. Unification—know that you are one with God.

3. Declaration—state your word for the circumstance you want to manifest.

4. Thanksgiving—give thanks for your word being acted upon by the Law of mind.

5. Release— State it into the Law, let it go, and anchor it with: “And so it is!”

There is no beseeching to or urge to compel an outside entity in spiritual mind treatment. As founder Ernest Holmes states:Effective mental treatment is propelled by a consciousness of love and a realization that the Creative spirit is always at work....A treatment should be given in a calm, expectant manner and with a deep inner conviction of its reality, without any fear or any sense that the human mind must make it effective. The work is effective because the Law is always in operation.